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Lynching-
To execute without due process of law.



//Nick M//

Most states have attempted to stop lynchings by law. Some states prosecute under the laws against homicide and assault. Other states have specific lynch laws. But legal controls have not succeeded in preventing lynchings. //Ricardo F.//
 * Was LYNCHING legal?**



The term lynching originated with Charles Lynch, a planter who lived in Virginia during the 1700's. Lynch and his neighbors took the law into their own hands and punished Torries and others who plundered their property. The term came to be applied to physical punishment such as whippping and tarring and feathering. //Ricardo F//
 * Where did the word Lynching come from?**

Lynching was a punishment system that white men and women used against the African American slaves. Not only African Americans were lynched white men and women who protested against lynching were lynched. On November 7th, 1837 Elijah Parish Lovejoy who was an editor for Alton Observer was killed by a white mob after he criticized lynching and the advocating aboliton of slavery. In 1867 a group of people called the Ku Klux Klan also known as the KKK was established. After the KKK was established the lynchings of African Americans increased dramatically. The KKK lynched African Americans to maintain white supremacy. Between the years of 1880 and 1920 on an average of two African Americans a week were lynched. //Nick M
 * Who lynched the men and women and why?**

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